Moynihan Train Hall (Four Years Later), Pennsylvania Station, NYC.
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Moynihan Train Hall (Four Years Later), Pennsylvania Station, NYC. 2025.
All the pixels, and then some, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54499376593/
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Rodenstock 32mm/4.0 HR Digaron-W lens (@ f/6.3) lens, Phase One IQ4-150 digital back (@ ISO 50, 1/4 sec), Cambo WRS-5005 camera (Shifted vertically +/- 15mm, horizontally +/- 23mm). Stitched composite of 4 images), cropped to 16:9 and 240MP.
This is a revisit, four years later, of a photo made from the same vantage point after the station just opened. See https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51205135362 for an emptier, more pristine station.
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The long-ish exposure (1/4 second) gives us a sense of motion; some people in the station are waiting around, while others are going places. Stitching multiple shifted exposures with the Rodenstock 32 gives us a very wide horizontal angle of view - here roughly equal to that of a 13mm lens in 35mm format, with excellent edge-to-edge sharpness. There are a few artifacts (a fellow visible on the rear balcony moved between exposures and appears twice, for example).
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I made four images with the 32mm Rodenstock to create this, each shifted up, down, left, and right to incorporate the entire image circle and then stitched them into a 500MP image. Then I found a pleasing crop that gave me the composition I wanted, in a 16:9 aspect ratio. The full image is here. You can see the edges of the image circle in the corners. There are also a couple of weird stitching artifacts at the far edges.
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The Rodenstock 32 is probably my most used architectural lens. The large image circle leaves plenty of room for shifts, and it's sharp on the IQ4-150 back all the way to the edges. It's big, heavy, and expensive, though.
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